Some of us where I teach http://www.kutztown.edu want to set up a Forum for some cross-department promotion and collaboration involving research that includes students. We have a few master's programs, but this is mostly about getting undergraduates participating in collaborative research projects.

Anybody care to recommend Forum and/or Wiki open source software I should look at? I think keeping it inside our firewall will avoid most spam issues. It would have to be straightforward for our understaffed IT org to support. Hopefully, they will give a few of us janitor permissions. This may be the forum software used here, or maybe you have other recommendations, based on experience.

It is not SQL based, SQL is a nightmare for admins, almost all web attacks I see go for it, either directly, or through PHPMyAdmin. To get it to perform you need a DBA too, which is another nightmare

PMWiki is not directly a forum, but it has some plugins available to make it more forum like. You'll most likely be on your own with it though, it's not a mainstream thing, unlike that Status Quo Language ...

PMWiki does not out of the box come with a nice system for handling many users, that will ned some work.

So ... it will need some work to set it up, maybe not what you are looking for ..._________________Jan

Actually, Dr. Steve, this is not particularly about music. It's primarily about finding what other research with undergrads is happening across campus, with the potential for collaboration across departments.

For example, I am overlapping a senior-level course with another prof from Communications Design (primarily graphical design) this coming spring, so our students can collaborate. We are trying to find ways to encourage cross-department communication & collab.

I suppose it could branch beyond at some point, but for now just getting cross-department collabs stepped up would be nice._________________When the stream is deep
my wild little dog frolics,
when shallow, she drinks.

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